Button



(No Model M. D. SHIP'MAN.

BUTTON.

Patented May 18, 1886.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN,

arena FFlCEO OF DE KAL 3, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON.

SPECIPICA'IlI'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,952, dated May18, 1886.

Application filedJunum-y 27.1885. Serial No. 154,151. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVIADISON D. SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons,of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates more particularly to that class of separablebuttons in which there is a stud having an annular groove,which studenters the head of the button and is there held by a spring or springscatching into said groove; and the invention consists in the peculiararrangement and construction and combinations of parts, hereinafter moreparticularly described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings show my im provement on an enlarged scale thebetter to show the parts.

In said drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of mybutton in position for use. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through theline X X in Fig. 1. Figs. 3, at, and 5 are side views and plans of diflerentforms of studs. Figs. 6 is a vertical section of a solid stud.Fig. 7 is a central vertical section showing the mode of uniting thestud to the material. Fig. 8 is a section of an eyelet used to fastenthe button to the material.

A represents a cap for the head of the but ton, and B a tube, made inone piece with said cap,whicl1 tube is slit at right angles, as shown inFig. 2, so as to form a series of fingers arranged in a circle whoselower ends are turned inward, as shown; or they may be made with anextension below, as shown in dotted lines, so as to leave their extremeends outward, so

as to present a flaring appearance below the turnedin portion. This capis secured in place on the material D by a largeheaded eyelet, 0, suchas is shown in Fig. 8, which is preferably secured to the head in theprocess of manufacturing the button by turning in the flange a under thehead of the eyelet, as shown in Fig. 1.

\Vhen it is desired to secure the button to the material, the eyelet ispassed through the material, a washer, E, is then put over the lower endof the eyelet, and thelatter expanded and set down over the washer, asshown in Fig. 1, and thus the turned-under flange a of the head issecurely held to the material by means of the eyelet and washer.

The stud F, tobe used with the button, is provided with a series ofspurs on its base, for a purpose hereinafter explained. These spurs maybe made in various ways. In some cases they are made to project from thesolid metal of the base, as shownin Fig. 3. In others they may be madeby cutting triangular pieces from the base, but leaving one side of thetriangle attached, as shown in Fig. 4.; and in others they may be madeby making the edge of the base of star form or with a series ofprojecting points, as shown in the plan View in Fig. 5, which points areafterward turned upward and inward, as shown in the side view of thesame figure. Either of these studs, or any other form having projectingspurs of any form, may be united to the cloth by means of an eyelet, G,which,when forced down against the conical part of the base, will beturned outward and expanded under the spurs, and the latter, being atthe same time closed down over the expanded part of the eyelet, willsecurely fasten the parts together. Besides their action on the expandedpart of the eyelet, the points of the spurs will catch in the fibers orsurface same; but independently of this action the material will besecurely held between the head of the eyelet and the base of the stud.

Instead of making the stud, base, and the spurs all in one piece, asshown in Figs. 8, 4, and 5, the stud may have a base of comparativelysmall diameter, and a cap, L, (see Fig. 7,) with an overturned flange orrim formed on its periphery, and the whole may be united by pressing onthe eyelet.

It is of course obvious that the studs may be made solid or hollow, asdesired; but I prefer them made hollow, as shown in Fig. 1, and where Irefer to studs in the following claim I mean to include solid as well ashollow studs.

I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the exactconstruction shown or described, as it may be changed by the exercise ofordinary mechanical skill without the exercise of invention.

of the material, and thus securely hold the I make no claim in thisapplication to the hollow cap and tube made in one piece, as this isclaimed in my application No. 154,152, of evendate herewith, nor to theenlargement near the base of the stud for the purpose of expanding thelower edge of the eyelet under the spurs, for the application abovereferred to shows and claims such an enlargement for turning the lowerend of the eyelet under a flange, which I consider the equivalent of thespurs, when claimed in connection with said enlargement.

Vhat I claim as new is- In a button-fastening, the cap A, having aflange, a, and a slit tube, B, forming fingers to 15 catch and holdastud, said cap, tube, and flange being formed in one piece,substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature,in presence of two witnesses,this 24th day of 20 January, 1885.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

HERMAN K. HELMER, SAMUEL E. BRADT.

